If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are tests of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There's no other feeling like that. You'll be alone with the Gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You'll ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

Factotum - Charles Bukowsky


PD: Quiero darme los créditos correspondientes por haber escuchado y transcribido (si es que así se conjuga el verbo transcribir) esta parte al pie de la letra.